The "Khatta" or "Kama" Oranges. 13 



and usually only margined ; the leaves have scarcely 

 any scent. The flowers are large, usually five-petalled, 

 tinged red externally, like those of the lemon ; other- 

 wise, as in other oranges. The scent of the flowers is 

 weak. The fruit is of two forms ; either smooth, and 

 only just rough to the touch, or very warty, as seen in 

 pis. 27, 28, and 29. It is mostly mammillate, with 

 furrows round the mammilla, leading to its point. 

 Sometimes the mammilla is pronounced, at others it 

 is flattened ; and some rather rare specimens are ob- 

 late, as in pi. 20. 



The smooth forms belong to the regular crop, the 

 flowers,of which come out in February and March, and 

 develop in the hottest and driest weather ; while the 

 warty forms belong usually to the Dumrez, or after- 

 crop, the flowers of which come out in the rains, and 

 develop during the hottest and moistest weather. Pis. 

 27, 28, and 29, show to what extent the two forms 

 differ. I took the two specimens of pi. 29 off the same 

 branch, and Major Duller got the two specimens of 

 pi. 27 off the same tree, and said "it would hardly be 

 believed that both came off the same tree." That in 

 pi. 28 was the first I got from Khoorja. It came 

 under the name of khatta ; it was unripe, and very 

 warty, and as it came alone, I did not know what to 

 make of it, until I saw the two forms growing on the 

 same branch in Benares. 



It is not impossible that these two forms, so distinct, 

 occurring on the same tree may help to throw some 

 light on the bizzarria, and so-called trifacial oranges, 

 although, in these, distinct parts occur in the same 

 fruit. There is no reason to suppose that the two 

 forms of this khatta orange have anything to do with 

 hybridism. They belong to two different crops of the 

 same tree, and appear to be caused by external 



